Learn to Write Chinese Characters with Video Tutorials
Watch the video of writing the Chinese character "吮", learn the correct stroke order (笔顺) of the character "吮", and master the standard way of writing the character "吮".
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吮 [shǔn]
1. 聚拢嘴唇吸。
- To gather the lips and suck.
2. 聚拢嘴唇吸:~吸。~乳。~痈舐痔(喻不择手段谄媚讨好有权势的人)。
- To gather the lips and suck: to suck; to nurse; to suck out pus from a boil and lick a hemorrhoid (figuratively refers to unscrupulously flattering and pleasing those in power).
本义: 用口含吸,缓饮。
- Primary meaning: To suck with the mouth, to drink slowly.
造字法: 形声。从口,允声。
- Composition: Phono-semantic compound, composed of "mouth" and the phonetic element.
同本义 ([En.] suck)
1. (Same as the primary meaning)
2. 舐 ([En.] lick).
引:
1. "Han Fei Zi · Bei Nei": A doctor who is good at sucking the wounds of others and swallowing their blood.
2. Li Bai's "Shu Dao Nan": Grinding teeth and sucking blood, killing people like cutting grass.
3. "Records of the Grand Historian · Sunzi Wuqiliezhuan": The mother said: "Not so. In the previous years, Duke Wu sucked his father, who died in battle without turning back." The Duke now again sucks his son; I do not know if he will die."
4. If someone suffers from a boil, rise up to suck it.
例:
- 吮痈 (To suck out the pus from a boil to detoxify)
- 吮疮 (To suck poison from a wound)
- 吮卒 (For a soldier to suck the pus from the wound)
- 吮嘬 (To suck with the mouth).
吮 [shǔn]
1. 舐 ([En.] lick).
2. 例:
如: 吮墨 (To hold a brush with the mouth, describing the appearance of pondering and writing; to dip a brush in ink, indicating composing or painting).
吮笔,吮毫 (To hold the brush. Figuratively referring to the conception of writing or painting).